Pain killers of the immune system

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 831-832

  Sharp, Burt ^a   Yaksh, Tony ^b  

^a MINNEAPOLIS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE; ANTISERUM; BETA ENDORPHIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; DYNORPHIN; ENKEPHALIN; FREUND ADJUVANT; GLUCOCORTICOID; GROWTH HORMONE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA; NALOXONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; OPIATE PEPTIDE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROLACTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROSTANOID; RIBONUCLEASE; SUBSTANCE P; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANALGESIA; B LYMPHOCYTE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFLAMMATION; LYMPH NODE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SHORT SURVEY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BETA-ENDORPHIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; PAIN; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030844986     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0897-831     Document Type: Short Survey

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